<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Apr 25, 2016, at 11:28 PM, David Owens II via swift-evolution <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" class="">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><font color="#333333" class=""><div class=""><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, 'Segoe UI', Arial, freesans, sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol';" class=""><b class="">What is your evaluation of the proposal?<br class=""></b></div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, 'Segoe UI', Arial, freesans, sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol';" class="">I reluctantly agree with the proposal with the following caveat: I do not agree with the rationale to support being able to choose to omit the () for the parameter list of the closure declaration.</div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, 'Segoe UI', Arial, freesans, sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol';" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, 'Segoe UI', Arial, freesans, sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol';" class="">I see no cohesive argument that says that the parens should be required in some cases but not in others when talking about parameter lists.</div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, 'Segoe UI', Arial, freesans, sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol';" class=""><br class=""></div></div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, 'Segoe UI', Arial, freesans, sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol';" class="">I believe the proposal should be amended that the following should be the only allowable forms:</div></font></div></div></div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div>Hi David,</div><div><br class=""></div><div>To be clear, this proposal is not about changing closure expressions, it was just a FAQ, and the section at the end is simply my personal opinion. Changing closure expression syntax would be a separate proposal.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>-Chris</div><br class=""></body></html>